Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last of her special reports on child friendly Scotland , Alison MacDonald 's been looking at how we 're doing on providing the basics like nursery places . |
| 2 | Allan Stewart had been itching to speak . |
| 3 | NCR Corp has been demonstrating an enhanced version of its Co-operation environment at UniForum in San Francisco , and says that it provides enhanced scalable , enterprise-wide support , including broadened server scalability ; enhanced desktop capabilities ; single point , local or remote , system administration ; access to object-based frameworks ; updated versions of all third-party components including Windows 3.1 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's NewWave 4.1 ; access to the Informix database ; and improved diary , mail and information access . |
| 4 | Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess . |
| 5 | Ian Maclaren has been finding out . |
| 6 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 7 | Napier University has been providing full-time undergraduate teaching in publishing since 1968 . |
| 8 | THE New Zealand selectors of the World XV who invited South African centre MARTIN KNOETZE to step in for England 's Will Carling have been labouring under a rather severe misapprehension . |
| 9 | BTW Speed has been having very quiet games recently . |
| 10 | In any case , as General Manager , Denis Baston has been telling Robin Powell , such major changes require careful consideration . |
| 11 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 12 | Students at Somerville College have been fighting for months to keep men out or their college . |
| 13 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 14 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
| 15 | Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time . |
| 16 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 17 | Hill Murray has been handling the product , which comprises three healthcare policies for the elderly , since it was launched last June to insurance brokers . |
| 18 | In addition to pressure for defence cuts , the Mitterrand administration has been wooing the two Green parties . |
| 19 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 20 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 21 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 22 | Little Polveir does not get warmed up until he has gone three miles and Toby Balding has been training him specifically with Saturday in mind . |
| 23 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 24 | Sir David Attenborough has been visiting a nature reserve to thank industrialists for helping to save a precious piece of the environment.He joined business sponsors who swopped their pinstripes for green wellies for the day . |
| 25 | I suppose Miss Martindale had been baiting you ? |
| 26 | Members will want to know how Pat Keen has been getting on since she gave up her classes in the London area and moved to Newquay in Cornwall to look after her 94–year-old mother . |
| 27 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 28 | Feeling in the East End Bangladeshi community has been running high since Quaddus , 17 , was kicked and punched , suffering serious head injuries , after he and three friends were set upon . |
| 29 | Miss Bayliss had been visiting her brother with her cousin Brian Barton , 21 , who was also strip searched . |
| 30 | The all important game as far as we 're concerned in this area is taking place at Saltergate tonight , it 's Chesterfield against Lincoln City , er that 's the group in which er Mansfield Town have been competing and er well it 's pretty complicated in this competition too . |